David Choe

David Choe (born April 21, 1976) is an American artist, musician, actor, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe's work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for magazines including Hustler, Ray Gun and Vice. He has an ongoing relationship with the Asian pop culture website, store, and former magazine Giant Robot. Choe's figurative paintings, characterized by a raw, frenetic method he terms 'dirty style,' explore themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation. Born in Los Angeles to Korean immigrant parents, Choe spray-painted on the streets since his teens and briefly attended the California College of the Arts. In 1996, he self-published the graphic novel Slow Jams and distributed limited copies at Comic-Con in 1998.